>>>>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Personally, I think that controlling who is allowed to run certain
> types of applications via group membership is a great idea. We should
> introduce that approach for other applications too. How about an
> "editors" group? Text editors are potentially dangerous because they
> allow users to modify files. Therefore, the system administrator
> should add only trusted users to the "editors" group so they can run
> programs like emacs, nano, or vim from the app-editors category.

Oops, I forgot a smiley here. :)

Ulrich

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